Marmol leaves game with injury

[Careless]

I'm pretty sure I remember reading that Vick could only throw a baseball 70 mph or so back when he was drafted by the Rockies.

 

edit: looking into it, the only thing I can find on it now is him topping out at 80 mph according to some site I've never heard of before

[Guest]

Man, I don't know. Most pitchers throw with so much effort on each pitch. I just don't see the same with QBs (except maybe Favre a few times a game). But the differences aren't really close. QBs get hit, yes, but they're playing once a week for 16-20 weeks. And they throw what, 25 passes on average (really a guess)? And yes, they throw warm-ups, but they aren't nearly the same velocity.

 

Pitchers throw 90+ pitches every 5 days for 6 months and that doesn't include warm-up pitches every inning. That's, what, 150+ pitches every 5 days, plus bullpend sessions in the middle. Though not every pitch is 90 mph, the 90 mph fastball isn't even the worst pitch for the arm.

 

And if a QB is hurting, he might be less effective. But the precision required to get ML hitters out is much higher than the precision required to throw a pass that can be caught by a WR everywhere from his toes to 10' off the ground.

 

I'm not sure if they could right away, but I'm willing to bet there are some QB's that if you worked with them on mechanics for a couple months, they could be throwing 90 mph.

 

There's a pitcher on UCD's baseball team who is a fifth-year senior and hadn't played baseball since he was a junior in high school and when he did play, he was a catcher. He went to UCD as a water polo player and after his senior season ended in that sport, he decided to try to walk on to the baseball team. He had a couple former UCD players (guys he went to H.S. with) teach him how to throw over about a six week stretch and made the UCD team. He can reach 90 mph on his fastball.

 

Like I said, I doubt that every NFL QB could, but it wouldn't surprise me if some were able to. Of course, they'd probably have to work as relief pitchers at first to build the arm strength up to throw 90-100 pitches.

 

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. I didn't say a QB couldn't throw a baseball 90 mph. I'm not really sure how that applies here.

 

It sounded like you were doubting they could.